On Fri, 2006-05-12 at 12:27 +0930, Tim wrote: > > It, homework, is pointless anyway. I work in electronics, I highly > technical field. I've never needed anything I was taught at high school > beyond basic maths in the first couple years, and the same applies for > most people that I know in a wide variety of jobs. All those nightly > hours of grief were a complete waste of my time. If I knew then what I > knew now, I would have coasted school. I would have flatly refused to > waste my time with pointless rubbish, insisted that they constrain > themselves to teaching things that were genuinely useful, and flatly > refused to co-operate with any punishments meted out. Even when I > worked in schools I realised it was a pointless place for most people. > Better to stay silent and let people think you are ignorant than to open your mouth and remove all doubt. Charlie
